Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 24, 2024

A trivial matter.

Recycling before recycling.

Nice trivia! Old Henry didn’t waste anything and didn’t miss a trick making his money.

If you have to ask ….

I didn’t know that.

Definitely making conversation.

I prefer natural chunk charcoal myself. Fantastic stuff.

Originally called charcoal briquettes, Henry Ford dropped the second “t” and named them briquetes, which they are called to this day.

Nope. The patent for the invention was given to Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer in 1897, before Ford was involved. Ford popularised, and used, them.

Arlo, if you see her eyes glaze over, it’s mansplaining.

How can you tell if a man is mansplaining? The same way you tell if a politician is lying.

Orin Stafford invented the process for making them, Henry Ford just commercialized it. And even giving Stafford for “inventing” the process should be limited to this one form – briquettes of charcoal and other materials have been around for centuries.

Arlo on “Jeopardy” , might be a good story line.

Here’s a good guide Arlo:

If you’re talking with a woman and you disagree with her, you’re mansplaining (even when she’s clearly wrong).

When she finally realizes she was wrong (not that she’d admit it), it will be your fault (even if you told her she was wrong previously)

I taught my kids not to ask me questions by giving them as complete an answer as time would allow. Time was up when they walked away.

Isn’t mansplaining when you learn something from it.

Women, of course, never explain things unnecessarily.

Here’s more mansplaining: Ford was an anti-Semite and was buddies with Hitler.

I learn something new nearly every day here on GO Comics.

It’s nice to be informative. Gotta start a conversation somehow.

I think mansplaining is telling a woman what something is or how to do something she already knows. Sharing interesting info is just that. So Arlo’s fine.

There’s some things you just really don’t need to know.

I have a cornucopia of useless information

How about telling us Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and tried to control his workers lives?

Technically Arlo, I think you’re just talking to yourself.

Henry Ford invented charcoal briquets?

Not sure what it is but I know it’s not a comic.

If you are the only one talking, it’s not a conversation. It’s a lecture.

Never knew that

There seems to be a small percentage of the human population responsible for so many of the inventions that make us as advanced as we are….. alien plants??

There’s a difference?

Orin Stafford invented “charcoal briquettes.” Henry Ford’s sawmill, operated by his cousin-in-law Edward Kingsford, had a charcoal factory, designed by Thomas Edison, next to it. A lot of Arlo in me.

We had 2 black cats. One was named Kingsford snd the other was Briquette.

hmmm…it’s a negative when men mansplain but a positive when women just want you to listen…

Henry Ford also attempted to carve out a portion of the Amazon rain forest and create a country named Fordlandia. It failed, obviously.

it’s also known as initiating small talk. If the other person then shows no interest or response, then it’s mansplaining if you continue on..

Henry Ford could squeeze blood from a turnip.

Gotta love Arlo.

Adolph Hitler had a portrait of Henry Ford in his office.

It’s called teaching History. He was a genius and a very good employer……

Another fun fact. A competitor to Goodrich was trying to find a cheaper source for tire material than rubber, so he could undersell Goodrich. His workers showed him the chicle tree, which produce a gum-like resin. The product proved unsatisfactory for tires – it couldn’t be hardened enough. But he learned the native workers chewed the resin, which led him into developing the first commercial chewing gum.

pretty sure she just waiting for the steak

Maybe we could start calling it ‘Oversplaining’. Both men and women do it.

Ford was a wily guy. He required the packing crates in which parts were delivered to his car factory to be made of a particular wood and have specific holes drilled in them. At the factory, the parts were unloaded and the dismantled crates became floorboards.

Mansplaining isn’t a real thing. I know because my wife told me so.

Actually, Ford also gave strict contractual requirements for suppliers shipping crates as well. He required that the boards in those crates be of specific dimensions & quality because he would then re-use them as the floorboards in his early vehicles.

I did not know that! Thank you for the trivia!

Good friend likes to say “When you sit down to have your oatmeal in the morning you never know just what the day’s going to bring you.” Thank you all.

When I had a physical medical library I’d give Kingsford briquettes to seriously overdue patrons and say the K stood for Kris Kringle.

Edward Kingsford helped Ford procure timber lands to provide wood for wood products in early automobiles. Later Ford named the charcoal “Kingsford” in honor of his contributions for Ford. Very short version of the product’s history.

Learned something new today! Thanks!

EXACTLY!!

After years of marriage you’re gonna have to do better than that Arlo